History Main / HypnotismReversal

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

* In an early issue of [[ComicBook/ActionComics Action Comics]], Superman faced a hypnotist named Medini and defeated him this way, after learning his techniques.

With an ordinary mirror.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Attempted by James in "Hypno's Naptime". Team Rocket's plan to capture Hypno in this episode was to trick it into hypnotizing itself by making it hypnotize its own reflection. The plan is foiled by [[TheProtagonist Ash]] shattering the mirror with a potted plant.

[[caption-width-right:350:YOU watch the pretty coin of gold.]]

** In ''"The Mouse-Merized Cat"'' After Babbit continuously hypnotizes Catstello and a cat does the same to him, Catstello holds up a pair of hand mirrors, reflecting their hypnotizing EyeBeams which causes them to hypnotize themselves.

** In ''"The Mouse-Merized Cat"'' After Babbit continuously hypnotizes Catstello and a cat does the same to him, Catstello holds up a pair of hand mirrors, reflecting their hypnotizing beams which causes them to hypnotize themselves.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'': One episode had Luke going up against Otto Luck, a talented but extremely unlucky hypnotist turned criminal, eventually Otto gets the idea to use his hypnosis on himself to give himself good luck, it only partly works, he does become BornLucky but his MindControlEyes prevent him from using hypnosis on anyone else at the same time.

* ''Series/{{The Electric Company|2009}}'': Annie Scrambler and her Aunt get to compete with two of the members of the Electric Company on a game show, "Friends or Aunts." They attempt to hypnotize the two members of the Electric Company, but they use mirrors, thus hypnotizing themselves. This causes Annie and her Aunt not to remember the answers for the game show.

* ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetTheInvisibleMan'': Overlaps with BungledHypnotism. The police department psychiatrist tries using a [[HypnoPendulum pocket watch]] to hypnotize Lou as part of an attempt to treat him, after Lou’s considered crazy for saying Tommy vanished into thin air. Lou keeps snapping out of it a little too early, grabs the watch, and accidentally hypnotizes the psychiatrist, putting ''him'' to sleep… and then a police officer who comes in to check on them. By the time Bud and the chief inspector come in, Lou’s accidentally put about a half-dozen more people to sleep while trying to explain the situation to them!

* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' had a gadget called the "Hypnosis Bank", a money box that hypnotizes anyone that attempts to steal from it making them pass out. Nobita managed to bypass the gadget using a mirror, causing the bank to knock itself unconscious instead.

--> '''Iris''': Repeat after me, "I am a wild boar, a wild boar!"\\
'''Asterix''': You are a wild boar, you are a wild boar.\\
'''Iris''': That's right! ''(Eyes short out as he cackles madly)'' I am a wild boar! ''(Snort, snort)'' A wild boar!

* ''Series/TheElectricCompany2009'': Annie Scrambler and her Aunt get to compete with two of the members of the Electric Company on a game show, "Friends or Aunts." They attempt to hypnotize the two members of the Electric Company, but they use mirrors, thus hypnotizing themselves. This causes Annie and her Aunt not to remember the answers for the game show.

* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'': In the episode "Snakin' All Over", the [=MAD=] Agent of the episode, Professor Venom, has a variety of snakes that do his bidding. One of them is a cobra that hypnotizes people into a helpless, stupefied state wherein they don't move. In the climax of the episode, Penny defeats the cobra by showing it a mirror, causing it to hypnotize itself.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Watch the pretty coin of gold, and you will do as you are told."]]

* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Lelouch deliberately uses his geass on himself using a mirror to bypass the abilities of a mind reader. He geass'd himself to forget about the trap he set so his mind reader opponent couldn't find out about it by reading his mind.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'': Wile E. Coyote plans to hypnotize the Road Runner into walking off a cliff and successfully tests the process on a fly. But when he tries it on the Road Runner, the latter holds up a mirror, causing Wile E. to hypnotize ''himself'' into walking off a cliff.

* ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'': Wile E. Coyote plans to hypnotize the Road Runner into walking off a cliff and successfully tests the process on a fly. But when he tries it on the Road Runner, the latter holds up a mirror, causing Wile E. to hypnotize ''himself'' into walking off a cliff.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'': PlayedForHorror and [[PlayedForLaughs Laughs]] ''simultaneously'' when [[BigBadWannabe Lloyd Garmadon]] accidentally hypnotizes the leader of the Hypnobrai tribe via ducking when he was standing in front of a reflective surface, gaining him ''total control'' over the Hypnobrai. [[PokeThePoodle He then forced them to steal candy from the nearby town.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': An auditory version occurs in "The Clothes Don't Make The Turtle", when the villainous Hypno-Potamus uses a 1980s-esque song to trap the Turtles in a hallucinatory movie makeover montage. After they escape, Donatello traps Hypno by playing him a copy of his own hypnotic song. Why does Donnie have that recording? As it turns out, Donnie records ''[[CrazyPrepared everything.]]''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rupert}}'': In "Rupert and the Great Mephisto", Rupert defeats the eponymous magician by using a mirror to turn his HypnoticEyes back on himself and make him act like a chicken.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'': The monster in the episode "Bedlam in the Big Top" is a Ghost Clown who wreaks havoc by hypnotizing people with a coin on a string. As shown in the page image, Scooby and Shaggy defeat him by baiting him into trying to hypnotize them, then looking away while holding up little mirrors.

* ''VideoGame/{{Toonstruck}}'': The game's final act introduces Count Nefarious's right hand, Ms. Fortune, who is a gypsy cat with HypnoticEyes. A pair of reflective sunglasses are enough to turn the tables on her, while somehow protecting the wearer as well.

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'': In ''Battle Extravagonzo'', one of the match-ups is [[RightHandCat Mr. Stubbins]] versus a [[MagicMushroom Hypno-shroom]]. Mr. Stubbins ends up using a mirror to reflect the mushroom's hypnosis against it, winning the fight.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In the episode "Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods", a Planetarium owner uses the star projector to hypnotize people into wanting to work for it. However, when he tries brainwashing Stan, Kyle, Mr. Mackey, and Nurse Gollum, Cartman - who had snuck out of the planetarium earlier to film a cheesy poofs commercial - arrives, outraged that they never saw his commercial, and [[AccidentalHero in a blind rage, kicks over and destroys the project]], freeing everyone and causing a full blast of the machine to get sent to the owner's brain, which renders him a mindless shell.

* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' had a gadget called the "Hypnosis Bank", a money box which hypnotizes anyone that attempts to steal from it making them pass out. Nobita managed to bypass the gadget using a mirror, causing the bank to knock itself unconscious instead.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games, this is possible when using Hypnosis, a StatusInflictionAttack that puts the target to sleep, against a Pokemon with the Magic Bounce ability or one that used the move Magic Coat in the same turn, as these reflect Hypnosis back to it's user.
* ''VideoGame/{{Toonstruck}}'': The final act of the game introduces Count Nefarious's right hand, Ms. Fortune, who is a gypsy cat with HypnoticEyes. A pair of reflective sunglasses are enough to turn the tables on her, while somehow protecting the wearer as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': ComicBook/GorillaGrodd gains telekinetic and hypnotic abilities after ComicBook/TheFlash sabotages his mind control helmet in an earlier episode. During a schism late in the series' run between two halves of [[LegionOfDoom the Secret Society]], Grodd attempts to mind control ComicBook/LexLuthor, who uses a device to turn Grodd's mind control against him, turning Grodd into his slave for the next few seconds, until he has Grodd ThrownOutTheAirlock.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In the episode "Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods", a Planetarium owner uses the star projector to hypnotize people into wanting to work for it. However, when he tries brainwashing Stan, Kyle, Mr. Mackey and Nurse Gollum, Cartman - who had snuck out of the planetarium earlier to film a cheesy poofs commercial - arrives, outraged that they never saw his commercial, and [[AccidentalHero in a blind rage, kicks over and destroys the project]], freeing everyone and causing a full blast of the machine to get sent to the owner's brain, which renders him a mindless shell.

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-->'''Trainer:''' Repeat after me: "I will do as you say".
-->'''Grimm:''' You will do as I say.
-->'''Trainer:''' I will do as you say...
-->'''Grimm:''' You will do as I say.
-->The arc ends with the trainer saying Grimm passed with a glazed expression and then seen chasing after cars.

--> '''Iris''': Repeat after me, "I am a wild boar, a wild boar!"
-->'''Asterix''': You are a wild boar, you are a wild boar.
-->'''Iris''': That's right! ''(Eyes short out as he cackles madly)'' I am a wild boar! -->''(Snort, snort)'' A wild boar!

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'': The monster in the episode "Bedlam in the Big Top" is a Ghost Clown who wreaks havoc by hypnotizing people with a coin on a string. Scooby and Shaggy defeat him by baiting him into trying to hypnotize them, then looking away and holding up little mirrors.